Merlin Chain releases Merlin 2.0- "Hold, Earn, Invest" to reshape BTC

Odaily Planet Daily News: Merlin Chain has announced the new Merlin 2.0, proposing the development direction of "Reinvent Bitcoin: Old, Earn, Invest", committed to expanding Bitcoin from a "value storage" to a "profitable and deployable core asset". Merlin 2.0 focuses on three major directions: BTCFi expansion, chain abstraction technology, and AI applications (such as Merlin Wizard), further enhancing the liquidity and practicality of BTC in the multi chain ecosystem, while lowering the threshold for BTC usage, allowing users to participate in various investment opportunities across chains without exchanging other assets, facilitating BTC holding, income acquisition, and liquidity participation. As previously reported, since its launch on the mainnet in February 2024, Merlin Chain has driven the rise of BTCFi, giving birth to several representative projects including Solv, Bedrock, Avalon, Babylon, and more. The chain has pledged over $3.8 billion worth of BTC. At present, Merlin's related ecosystem has contributed approximately $2 billion in BTCFi TVL, accounting for over 20%.